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Originally Posted by TomcatViP
Yes we want. There was many airfield all over sthern england (dispersed) and so does we have some choice fro re-spawning. If you intend to arrive at 15kft over the front line (wich shld be the coast of England during BoB) then choosing an airfield 50km away from the coast seems to be more a logical choice.
I am always surprised how the action on ATAG can be so packed low ard hawkinge or high over the Calais (!?).
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Whether they were at Hawkinge, Biggin Hill, Hornchurch or Duxford the engines would be warmed and ready to go for either a 'cockpit readiness' scramble or a more leisurely planned sweep/escort. Remember that both pilots
and aircraft were kept available at various stages of readiness, all ready to go. They weren't like us, just leaping in and out of cockpits whenever we feel like it. If we like to think we are at 'cockpit readiness' the engines should be warm. If not we should wait in the briefing room until the ground crew have warmed them. btw, tests were carried out that showed the Merlin could be run from cold without any significant damage other than, IIRC, reducing its hours before maintenance.
This is not me trying to avoid being vulched - thats a risk you take even with a warm engine - its just unrealistic waiting around for the engine to warm up.
EDIT: cheesehawk I didn't realise that. You mean that CEM is disabled if you select warm engines? Another bug on the windscreen of real life
